Opinion: The Millennial Jobs Malaise

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... I ... I ... the ... looking Chow I'm Mary Kissel ... the the the is this mean high schoolers today it's ... the importance of job training ... and the sun the unemployment figures ... those young Americans are many all the help they can get ... Generation Opportunity President and find her joins me now from ... Washington haven't ... a quick ... slide here to look at the numbers ... of millennial joblessness ... youth unemployment age eighteen to twenty nine ... fifteen point eight percent ... but when you drill down African Americans almost twenty four percent Hispanic somewhat seventeen percent when aunts and ... why these numbers so bad ... well this is not a lot of opportunity for young Americans in today's economy look we've had a stagnant economy that has been growing is the time ... Bernard new jobs for all these dynamic new graduates that are coming out of school and so ... many Americans have never been in an economy that offers the American dream to them so ... we're seeing higher unemployment rates in the rest of the of the population and it's really hurting my generation ... is this exaggeration to say that it's a it's a great depression ... ah for AI those young Americans day for this millennials ... I don't think it's an exaggeration and all I mean ... a third of young Americans between the ages of eighteen thirty four years old had been forced to move back in with their parents we got over trillion dollars in student loan debt that we have no hopes of being able to ... earn enough money to pay off an ... ounce up about the national debt which my generation's on the hook for and there's there's no doubt that it's the it's a great depression free under American it's now that the has focused on using youth unemployment night you see that ... Indian entities doing today ... why haven't his policies were seven ... of the president's policies in really been a war on you in fact that no job training programs the mansion aren't the answer to my cherished or that one in education ... we've got plenty of skills with plenty of upper north to ... the problem is that the of the overall economy is rigged against US politicians including the special interests in the previous generation before the next generation of Americans and so in a suit with policies like Obamacare weren't its rigs in a young people pay more said or sicker Americans can have more benefits how when your policies are specifically targeted benefiting others and not worry about younger Americans that his nose the surprise again Americans lock opportunity ... what effect does this have on the midterm elections seven because ... the youth vote was a key part of that ... Obama coalition ... in the last two elections ... I think if you look it ... that present Obama vs may Ronnie among eighteen nineteen and twenty year olds new Romney the President Obama ... a recent Harvard in student politics will show that if you ... had a vote to recall the president today fifty two percent to eighteen to twenty four year olds which is the president of office that doesn't bode well for for the president and his party in the midterm elections I think ... Republicans have a message of empowerment ... are probably Guinea better able to message that to my demographic I think whichever political party which ever politicians were able to talk about ... how to improve the lives of young Americans that he would do well like swirly and right now in force the president's policies ... are on the other side of that equation one thing's for sure they are terrible numbers ... a real crisis in the millennial generation ... generation opportunity president of the Feinberg ... inky so much for joining us ... thank you